Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele, or watery rupture : by which the operation may be performed at any period of the disease, and with less pain than with the common trochar. With a few words in favor of a larger trochar, on a similar construction, for tapping the abdomen / By John Andree.

  • Andree, John, approximately 1740-approximately 1820
Date:
1781
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Account of an elastic trochar, constructed on a new principle, for tapping the hydrocele, or watery rupture : by which the operation may be performed at any period of the disease, and with less pain than with the common trochar. With a few words in favor of a larger trochar, on a similar construction, for tapping the abdomen / By John Andree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , [ *6 ] But, to conclude thefe remarks, I beg leave to add, that the new Trochar appears to me really to deferve the pre¬ ference over the common Trochar, in every point of view, in which I have here fet it forth ; not only from the plaufibility of the reafons I have ad¬ vanced in its behalf (which in theory, I prefume, will be readily admitted) but \ more efpecially becaufe I have experi¬ mental knowledge of their juftnefs, from the frequent ufe I have made of the In- ftrument, as well in my private practice, as in that in which I am engaged at the Finfbury Difpenfary. d* -' AN /